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This video, from the 2021 Esri Education Summit, provides three presentations about the suite of web-based tools in the ArcGIS School Bundle. In the first presentation, Judith Bock explores the integration of geospatial technologies into AP Human Geography courses. Bock highlights a curriculum...

In this activity, developed by the Lane Community College Geo-STAC program​, students will "describe spatial occurrence of earthquakes and tectonic landforms. Students practice Boolean logic queries to select data and describe spatial patterns. In part two, students develop and test hypotheses to...

This 2-page document explores the growing and changing field of surveying due to the incorporation of new technologies such as GPS, GIS, and remote sensing. Here, the Geospatial Technology Competency Model (GTCM) is addressed and contextualized for instructors. The GTCM formally outlined some of the...

This resource, created by The GIS 2 GPS Portal Resources For Educators & Students, "want[s] to make educators and students aware of these two new emerging technologies, Geographical Information System (GIS), Global Positioning System (GPS), and Remote Sensing (RS)." The resource contains links to...

This video, from the 2021 Esri Education Summit, highlights three presentations about GIS projects in education. In the first presentation, Curby Alexander describes the use of ArcGIS for a longitudinal study of urban turtles. Curby explores the project, converting data into ArcGIS, visualization,...

This website, from the program On the Cutting Edge - Strong Undergraduate Geoscience Teaching, focuses on metacognition and its role in geoscience education. Metacognition, broadly, is defined as "thinking about thinking," and can help students monitor and adjust their own learning strategies to...

This video features Colonel David Buckman, from Air Force Space Command, discussing GPS and how it works. GPS is provided free of charge by the United States Air Force, made possible by satellites orbiting the earth that broadcast radio signals, and provides highly accurate time to enable critical...

This video, from the Integrated Geospatial Education and Technology Training Project (iGETT), is the first part of a two-part presentation on thermal infrared sensing. Topics covered include an introduction to the concept of thermal infrared, thermal radiation laws (including Backbody,...

This video, from the Integrated Geospatial Education and Technology Training Project (iGETT), is the second part of a two-part presentation on thermal infrared sensing. It begins with an opportunity to address questions from the first part of the presentation and then reviews concepts with multiple...

This webpage from the GeoTech Center features a document from Irina Kopteva of Pikes Peak Community College discussing the Tiered Internship Model for students in geospatial technology. The goal of the project was "to create a tiered internship program with industry that will start with two-year...